Today marks the five-year anniversary of my death. While my body and mind may live on, my compassion and love have rotted to dust. One horrific moment in my existence changed my life forever. That...

Jeremiah Cruz Jr. (Better known as JJ). Photo courtesy of Jerry Cruz On July 22nd, we set aside a little time and smoke a special cigar. While we enjoy that cigar, we allow our minds to drift and...

It has been entirely too long since I have participated in the Writers Adventure Group. With some sort of predictable routine emerging, post baby-birth, I found a little spare time to sneak in some...

Just the other day I was browsing through recent status updates on Facebook when I came across something interesting. A friend, and soon to be father, Dr. Terry Simpson, made an observation about...

Throughout the course of my professional career, I have adopted a mantra of sorts. Before undergoing any job, I would tell myself "Ignorance is Bliss". In the broad scope of things this is a terrible...

Being a new father, one of the things that I've quickly learned is that being able to multi-task is a must-have skill. No matter what my wife and I are doing, when my daughter needs our attention we...